I stocked up at the farmers market to try out my new favorite holiday gift idea: farm-to-feezer meals for your friends & family who have scarce time resources or just don't enjoy cooking. 🙃. This one is a quinoa grain bowl with chickpeas, local garli… instagr.am/p/CXXsBvALn7C/

Taking mom's new hip out for a spin! We found some awesome new trails in walking distance from home. instagr.am/p/CX_-6rJP_rZ/

Just.... Look at these a-holes. instagr.am/p/CYVrmh1gisk/

Please share refer your most brilliant undergrads in the Southeast for the most important project I've ever attempted. :D We're hiring TWENTY. 😀🥴🤯bug2school.org

Spring break collage collab with Arthur and Lucille Hinson! We traced household objects, chose colors, and glued in little pieces of dog food bags from my eco-anxiety hoard. The glitter was ..... A mistake. Sorry Shannon & Nick about what we did to the … instagr.am/p/Cav0ef2Do2l/

Introducing Bug2School, a collaborative school garden research network! :D (featuring artwork by the incredible Maisy Durkin) bug2school.org Send me a note if you'd like to host micro-experiments in your communities!

Check out our new deep synthesis on the joys and trials of intercropping. Stay to the end for a brief manifesto on labor challenges, chewy crosstalk between diversification practices and "efficiency" , and a disruptive proposal. bit.ly/3v6oXiZ

Poem of the Day: How to Be Perfect - poetryfoundation.org/poems/57243/ho…

I’m excited to share Food Webs has its first impact factor (2.2). Thank you to all the authors, reviewers and editors that helped us get here! journals.elsevier.com/food-webs/news…

Eight years ago I crashed Purdue's advanced mammalogy class trying to learn things about mice and found a really smart mammologist (Ivy Widick) to conspire with me. I will never be so lucky again. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This project was a cathartic JOURNEY. 💪It's imperfect, inspired by a convergence of OG studies on the role of omnivory in food webs, with quite an important new lesson. Long live the omnivores!

Back in the before-times, Dr. Katherine Holmes and I decided to organize/synthesize the mind-boggling number (23!) of meta-analyses/global syntheses on effects of plant diversity across trophic levels. Our pandemic baby finally here! You're welcome. :) tinyurl.com/yc29p74n

Published! 🐭Carmen Blubaugh et al. suggest that a diverse #nutritional landscape may be key in enabling #omnivores' #resistance and resilience to immune stressors such as parasite attack in their environments. Read it now 👉doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

New #OpenAccess work by C.Huss, J.Golan & Carmen Blubaugh reports on host preferences of an #invasive specialist #herbivore and native #predators on chemically defended plants: doi.org/10.1111/een.13… #Microtheca #Chrysomelidae #Brassica #InvasiveInsects #TrapCropping Wiley Ecology & Evolution